Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics: A Metaphysical Meditation.

CARR, Herbert Wildon.

$350.00

Item Number: 115018

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.

First edition of Carr’s reflective study on the effects of the principle of evolution in ethics, religion, and philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. Lamont with pleasant recollections of a dejeuner at Bergson’s A. Wildon Carr.” The recipient, Florence Corliss Lamont, was married to American banker Thomas W. Lamont, the acting head of J.P. Morgan & Co. on Black Thursday in 1929. Previous to their marriage, Florence attended Smith College, where the Lamont House is named after her. With the Smith College Lamont House bookplate to the pastedown. In very good condition.

British philosopher Herbert Wildon Carr was Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London from 1918 until 1925 and Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California from 1925 until his death. He wrote several books on science, religion and ethics. Carr states in the introduction to the present volume, "The single purpose of this reflective study is to express definitely the consequences in ethics and religion of accepting the principle of evolution in philosophy."